I thought about putting this in the science forum but decided that because it is a book that talks about what will be required in the future for the human race to survive that it does belong here.
In his book The Quark and the Jaguar Murray Gell-Mann talks about the simple and complex in physics. He talks about various complex adaptive systems such as biological evolution and learning and thinking in humans and animals. Of course there are many other examples.
A complex adaptive system is able to take information from the environment and its own interaction with the environment and simplify the regularities in that information into what Gell-Mann calls a "schema." The schema is a kind of model that the complex adaptive system uses to determine its action in the real world. And the various schemata are competing with each other.
To me it is like a computer process. Gell-Mann says that by developing better schemata the human race can stabilize itself and survive its future. The future of the human race to him is predicated on finding greater sustainability of our environment. He wants to find schemata that will maximize the quality of our future. I like to say as the human race evolves it tends toward more order. We will become better at adapting to the future. This means a better life for all.
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